Today’s old book dive didn’t give me life goals…but it did give me a death goal: obligatory pancakes at my funeral.

bring back "software bug of the month" BYTE choose violence / named and shamed a broken FORTRAN binary search used by Turing Award winner Robert Floyd—a literal pioneer of program correctness imagine getting roasted in print and then having to wait 30 days for the magazine to publish the solution

How have I never seen the Bugs Bunny shoes until now? www.bbimpworld.com/products/bbi...

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

The Oscars are Sunday. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I paid tribute to 10 great movies from 2025 whose names we won't hear once during the show. Which is a shame.

These pen and ink pieces by @taylormazer.bsky.social are incredible.

This week's post: Just A Peck 0035 // Penka, Pella, Powers justapeck.net/2026/03/08/j...

I love @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social’s writing. I also love the online arts bookstore he runs with his partner Judith. You should buy something from them and support their great work.

Minnesota Star Tribune critics and friends have come up with the ultimate list of the most famous people to ever call this state home.

The Music Box has been listed at #9 on TimeOut's "100 Greatest Cinemas In The World Right Now!" Honored by the recognition, and proud to be in such good company! www.timeout.com/film/the-100...

Impressive. It’s interesting to see the 5th Ave and train sides reconstructed.

Rivers are living beings.

“Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable.” [theatlantic.com]

We are partnering with Object podcast for its new season, Imagined Futures, exploring the visual culture of retrofuturism. First episode — Early Sci-Fi and Electric Visions — is out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Lumière, Le Cinema! is a new documentary film by Thierry Frémaux about Auguste & Louis Lumière and the early days of motion pictures. "The restored footage from short films that are 120, 130 years old is astonishing." [kottke.org]

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

Tove Jansson illustrated the Swedish translation of the Hobbit?! The image below is how she imagined Gollum. tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolki...

37 million years old whale spine found in the hot dunes of Egypt. This is a complete skeleton, the first-ever find for Basilosaurus, a large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale uncovered in Wadi El Hitan, preserved with the remains of its prey. Original post

1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads! www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... "But if AI instead triggers a rapid reorganization of work—compressing years of change into months, affecting roughly 40 percent of jobs worldwide, as the International Monetary Fund projects—the consequences will not stop at the economy."

This week's post: Just A Peck 0034 // Méliès, Slide Rules, Bald Eagles justapeck.net/2026/03/01/j...

I ask myself this about 3x a day

Beautiful diagrams from a circa 17th-century copy of Muslim polymath Ismail al-Jazarī’s *Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices*, originally published in 1206: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript

A friend reminded me today of this hilarious @garygulman.bsky.social stand-up bit about state abbreviations. youtu.be/dLECCmKnrys?...

“But I think much more importantly, dreaming big is a muscle. You have to exercise it from time to time. Each time I come up with a grand vision and sink dozens to hundreds of hours into it, only to walk away unfinished, I learn a bit more about how to make a dream become real.” @notjack.space

An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75). So much throwback inspiration here! [kottke.org]

The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps exhibits.stanford.edu/cartosym/bro...

Nano banana 2: "Show me a photo taken of pages 113-114 from the books": "Eldritch Horrors as Pets: A Guide" "How Womblenauts Work" "Photographs of the People of New York Who Look Like Birds". "Cakes shaped like fish shaped like cakes"

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

Japanese Death Poems (Part 1 of 3)

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Javier Riera’s geometric projection mappings javierriera.com/gallery-cate...

“We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but not very able to think.” — Rod Serling

The internet hosts several very good Walkman/personal stereo archive sites, but this is the slickest yet walkman.land Thanks @kottke.org The others will be linked below

The folks behind Dark Sky spun themselves out of Apple and have built a new weather app: Acme Weather. “We missed those days as a small scrappy shop. So let’s try this again…” [acmeweather.com]

This week's post: Just A Peck 0033 // Board Games, Blizzards, Big Apple justapeck.net/2026/02/22/j...

#25 Cammarata’s Razor: If you want more agency, ask yourself what you’d do if you had ten times more agency. Then do it.

*For what it is, it's pretty good. It probably needs a sequel that goes a thousand years into the future. https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

Early photographic fakes

Some modern collective nouns: a cringe of Cybertrucks, an anxiety of authors, a migraine of toddlers, and “a group of two or men is called a podcast”. [robertstephens.com]

I love this so much.

Vintage art house movie posters by Peter Strausfeld, "highlighting works by now-famous directors like Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Andrzej Wajda, and Satyajit Ray". [kottke.org]

“A group of women burst into the bar with thick accents too polite for their actions, dressed far too scantily for the zero degrees, did body shots with some bemused orbiting men, and then after two began to argue—again in an accent too polite for the content—they went outside to fight.”

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

A well-designed site that teaches statistics through interactive visualizations

This week's post: Just A Peck 0032 // Surprise Party, Sickness, Soiree justapeck.net/2026/02/15/j...

Wow my @commodoreofficial.bsky.social 64 is here and it’s just perfect www.tiktok.com/t/ZThxTMs9G/

One of the greatest cover letters ever written. news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-like-words

Wildly inappropriate vintage valentines